JohnCenaFan28
03-13-2009, 01:00 AM
A Romanian woman nearly buried a stranger instead of her own mother.
Elena Stancu, 52, from Tanacu village, took what she believed was her dead mother's body from the morgue of the County Hospital in Vaslui after the 73-year-old died from a heart attack.
She made all the funeral arrangements but when she got to the point of burying her mother the village gravedigger told her she was burying the wrong body.
Gravedigger Ciprian Ungureanu said: "I realised immediately it was another person in that big coffin and told the family. I knew the deceased and had made a smaller grave for her."
Morgue employees had somehow mixed up the name tags between the two deceased women.
Mrs Stancu said: "When I took mom from the morgue I looked at her but didn't realise it wasn't her. I spent the last four years away and I thought the illness changed her."
She went back to the morgue and corrected the mistake.
The hospital in Vaslui started an investigation to see who was responsible for the mistake.
-Nova
Elena Stancu, 52, from Tanacu village, took what she believed was her dead mother's body from the morgue of the County Hospital in Vaslui after the 73-year-old died from a heart attack.
She made all the funeral arrangements but when she got to the point of burying her mother the village gravedigger told her she was burying the wrong body.
Gravedigger Ciprian Ungureanu said: "I realised immediately it was another person in that big coffin and told the family. I knew the deceased and had made a smaller grave for her."
Morgue employees had somehow mixed up the name tags between the two deceased women.
Mrs Stancu said: "When I took mom from the morgue I looked at her but didn't realise it wasn't her. I spent the last four years away and I thought the illness changed her."
She went back to the morgue and corrected the mistake.
The hospital in Vaslui started an investigation to see who was responsible for the mistake.
-Nova